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Atlantica Online has been updated with a new event dungeon called Freedom Park. The dungeon is designed for players of level 80+ where they can earn “Freedom Flyers” that can be traded in for items including mounts and mercenaries. The event begins today and runs through August 2nd.
The v5.0 update to Fortnite is coming along with some fascinating new features that have stemmed from the cracks in the sky after the rocket launch a couple of weeks ago. There are now Rifts that challenge players to “test your courage and step through” one. The update notes mysteriously state, “You’re in for a wild ride.” Save the World players get the Challenge the Horde mode and Wild West Heroes and accompanying weaponry.
Sea of Thieves Executive Producer Joe Neate is back with the latest Developer Update for the game. Neate begins with a discussion of the latest build that was deployed earlier today and contains some stability fixes, eliminated a cannonball knockback that could injure a player’s own crew and more. In addition, a new Bilgerat Adventure called the Sunken Curse has been added that “is intended to get you to explore underwater”.
Epic Games is off to a big start in their Fortnite esports tournament series with today’s announcement of the $8,000,000 Summer Skirmish series. The event will feature an 8-week competitive series that begins this weekend with the $250,000 Duos competition. In this event, the participants “will be made up of community creators and Fortnite players who have demonstrated their competitive prowess”. Epic has promised that the format and competitors will change in each of the 8 weeks.
The team behind Crowfall has been working hard on their MMO. However, more is going on than just a game. Recently, Artcraft Entertainment announced that they would license out their MMO Artisan Engine for other MMO creators in the market. It is something that Josef Hall, formerly of Shadowbane and Wizard 101 fame was brought on board to do. Todd, Josef, and Gordon all took time to chat with us yesterday about the plans for the Artisan Engine and how development on Crowfall is coming along.
The World of Warcraft site has been updated with a preview of a new featuring coming with the Battle for Azeroth expansion in August. Communities allow players to “create, manage, and join multiple groups of friends and family”. These groups can be themed around anything such as pet collection, class communities, role playing, PvP or anything else that comes to mind. Communities can also be created “cross game”.
The latest Twin Saga update has been deployed that brings a ton of new content to players including a new class, the Canoneer, to the game. In addition, players will have two new zones to explore, a new dungeon and a new story quest series.
The latest Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen newsletter has been published that provides readers with a ton of great new information about the game. Most notably, players are reminded to check out the first information about Clerics, Druids and Shaman. In addition, the Giants of Terminus are revealed as part of the Rogue’s Gallery.
Skyforge has been updated with the Gods of War patch that brings significant changes to PvP. The goal, according to a recent developer blog, is to “improve the rewards as well as finding a complex solution to the current PvP issues in Skyforge”. Starting today, players can find out how well those issues have been addressed.
Blizzard and Disney are partnering up to bring the Overwatch League to Disney’s stable of channels including ESPN, ESPN 2, ABC and Disney XD, all considered “traditional TV channels”. This comes after the inaugural season debuted exclusively on streaming channels such as Twitch.